A Succession of Bad Days, further progress update

So, not quite done yet  --

1. send it out for critique by unfamiliar eyes -- DONE!
2. get an ISBN -- DONE!
3. get a cover -- DONE!
4. copyedit -- Pass 2 and final; at greater than 50% for the copy-editor
5. generate EPUB -- automated long since; even counting the manual zip step, requires < 30s
6. make available -- unfulfilled dependencies.

Various (mostly micro-) organisms have been trying to kill the copy-editor.  It hasn't worked, but it has slowed things down substantially.  So no book in April, because there is no more April.

I continue to view this as preferable to "no more copy-editor".[1]

Book in May?  I continue hopeful.

[1]  There's presumably a kind of author who would feel that their robust prose was the real reason the copy-editor succumbed and mwah-ha-ha a bit.  I am not at all that kind of author.

A Succession of Bad Days progress update

So, yes, I've entirely missed March. Whups.

So, anyway --

1. send it out for critique by unfamiliar eyes -- DONE!
2. get an ISBN -- DONE!
3. get a cover -- Art Done, Design Pending
4. copyedit -- 1st Pass Done, Final Pass Pending
5. generate EPUB -- automated long since; even counting the manual zip step, requires < 30s
6. make available -- unfulfilled dependencies.

That all said -- is there a consensus as to the best way to indicate "second book in a series" on the cover?  It's not a direct sequel and is a complete book.

(I'm going to suppose no one pays attention to the metadata indicators for series position and set them anyway.)

I expected this book would not require anybody to read The March North first, that's not the consensus of the folks other than me who have read it.

That suggests I really have to put "book 2" on there somehow. And four-dot hexadecimal notation for "2" at the end of the "A Novel of the Commonweal" banner is probably too subtle.

Anyone got an opinion about indicators of series position on book covers?